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Second Life's NanoLand is offering a challenge for anyone to build an exhibit to be featured in their landmark. Submit your purposal and you could win 400 to 700 dollars! There is no time limit on this challenge. For more information visit their blog here.

 

Foresight Announces the Technology Roadmap for Productive Nanosystems. "The Technology Roadmap for Productive Nanosystems will chart a path beginning with current nanotechnology capabilities to advanced systems. The Roadmap will detail a step-by-step course of development that must take place to move from one stage to another, with milestones for achieving each step. With the support and collaboration of our partners, The Waitt Family Foundation and Battelle, we will be able to identify the gap between the basic nanostructured materials of today, and the potential of productive nanosystems."
—Foresight Nanotech Institute


Engines of Creation 2.0: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology – Updated and Expanded By K. Eric Drexler (father of nanotechnology) is available exclusively from WOWIO at www.wowio.com and is free of charge to registered users.
           
Kinematic Self-Replicating Machines Now Freely Available Online. The most comprehensive review of the field of Kinematic Self-Replicating Machines (KSRM), the title of a book co-authored by Robert A. Freitas Jr. and Ralph C. Merkle, was published in hardback in late 2004. The book is still available in print but KSRM is now freely accessible online. With 200 + illustrations and 3200 + literature references, KSRM describes all proposed and experimentally realized self-replicating systems that were publicly known as of 2004, ranging from nanoscale to macroscale systems.
     
A new (and wonderful) book on nanotechnology has been released: Nanofuture: What's Next for Nanotechnology by J. Storrs Hall PhD Chief Scientist at Nanorex Inc. and fellow at the Molecular Engineering Research Institute and who's "utility fog" concept is renown among the nanotechnology informed. Dr. Hall has published many papers, is knowledgeable in computer science and has generated 3D models of nano mechanical systems as well as developed multiple operating systems. For more on utility fog see: Utility Fog: The Stuff that Dreams are Made Of
           
Turn on the Nanotech High Beams by Mike Treder Executive Director, The Center for Responsible Nanotechnology. You’re driving a car, very fast, on a poorly marked road, in the pitch-black darkness. There are no streetlights, there is no moon out tonight, the only illumination you have is your car’s headlights…you’re in uncharted territory; you have no roadmap, no way to know for sure where you are going…but you’re driving very fast, into the pitch-black darkness… That’s the state of nanotechnology today. We’re advancing rapidly into uncharted territory. The changes this technology will bring may arrive sooner than we are prepared to respond effectively to them.
           
Elsevier, the world-leading scientific and medical publisher, announces plans to launch the world's first peer-reviewed journal devoted to nanomedicine - the emerging science of using molecular machines to treat human disease. Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology, and Medicine, the official publication of the American Academy of Nanomedicine, will be published quarterly, with the first issue to appear in March 2005.
           
Read the National Cancer Institute's Brochure Cancer Nanotechnology, Going Small for Big Advances; Using Nanotechnology to Advance Cancer Diagnosis, Prevention and Treatment
this is in PDF format. This document sites "researchers envision that nanotechnology will serve as multi-functional tools that will not only be used with any numnber of diagnostic and therapeutic agents, but will change the very foundations of cancer diagnosis, treatment and prevention." Visit the National Cancer Institute's website by clicking here. 		   
               
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The Immortality Institute - ImmInst.org For Infinite Lifespans, webpresence of a very active and interesting forum, chatroom and news center, is now working hard on a book project with the focus of potential physical immortality. Due to overwhelming written contributions to the book, the project appears as if it will expand into a series of publications. Discuss this project here.		    
               
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New: Nano In Brief by Gina Miller, a short and sweet introduction to how it began, how it works and what it could become.
Also New: The Lesser of Two Evils by Gina Miller, a casual approach to discussing cryonics, as the lesser of two evils and death as not an option. Societal fears and typical responses are addressed in this paper.
Read earlier papers The Bioethical Implications, Dilemmas And Questions Involved With Cryonic Suspension written May 31, 2003 by Gina Miller. This paper documents the cryonic movement's history, man's various strategies to satisfy the quest for immortality (the conditioning to accept death), why cryonics is not wrong (the controversy), nanotechnology as revival, legal issues (Dora Kent, Thomas Donaldson and Ted Williams), and the vision. Also, read this supplement to the above paper, Imaginary conversation about cryonic suspension There are two characters, Nikolai a man who recently signed up for cryonic suspension and Bertrand a man who believes that death is inevitable. May 31, 2003.		      
                 

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Prey: A Novel The highly publicized book by Michael Crichton author of Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain and The Lost World has been released. In this book the author uses self-replicating nanotechnology as a run away, monster of an antagonist. Get it, or read about the press coverage here.
 
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David R. Forrest, President of The Institute For Molecular Manufacturing provides the following report of his attendance at NANO2002 : the Sixth International Conference on Nanostructured Materials held in FLorida, USA June 16 through the 21st. Read the four page report
 
 
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By David R. Forrest, President of The Institute For Molecular Manufacturing discusses the properties of carbon nanotubes and recent work by Advanced Materials Research Institute.
Read this feature by clicking here. 		   
             
                 
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